Minister’s wife says she is proof of God’s sense of humor
By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
SEVIERVILLE — During the The Good Cup event for ministers’ wives held at The Summit in November, the question was posed to those wives who attended, “Did you think you would ever marry a minister?”
Pardon Tiffany Bowen for laughing. The question often reminds her of God’s wonderful sense of humor.
At the time she met her future husband Jason Bowen, now pastor of First Baptist Church, Trenton, Tiffany was a self-professed “atheist, feminist bartender.”
Tiffany was working her way through the University of Tennessee in Knoxville when she met Jason, then a self-described “lukewarm” Christian who was working at the same restaurant. He asked her out three times before she agreed to date him and it was only going to be for one hour, she recalled. [Read more…]